I do think that our freedoms are at risk.

The myths that are created about the South, about the way we grew up, about black people, are wrong.

The thing that bothered me when I was in college was that I saw myself rejecting the way of life that got me to where I was.

In our society, marriage is not simply a governmental institution; it is a religious institution as well, today's decision might change the former, but it cannot change the latter.

Government cannot make us equal; it can only recognize, respect, and protect us as equal before the law. That [affirmative action] programs may have been motivated, in part, by good intentions cannot provide refuge from the principle that under our Constitution, the government may not make distinctions on the basis of race.

The job of a judge is to figure out what the law says, not what he wants it to say. There is a difference between the role of a judge and that of a policy maker... Judging requires a certain impartiality.

So many of our conversations (about affirmative action) have been dishonest